Is there/isn’t there a contract between Platte International (Platte Media) and the British Internet Broadcasting Company (BiBC)? My story today - Content supplier admits to contract with popup biller Platte - reveals that there is (but not for Getfilmsnow).
My piece today - Your life will be flashed before your eyes - in technology Guardian looks at the idea of making contact lenses into tiny displays.
My cover story - Popup billing finds a new screen - in today’s technology Guardian (printed edition) takes a closer look at Platte Media (Platte International Ltd).
It’s online as Porn billing firm lures customers with promises of Hollywood movies (it was first published on Weds 25 June in the latest news section).
If you’ve found a popup bill (Your Platte Subscription) on your PC demanding a £29.99 subscription for getfilmsnow.com in the last couple of months, then you’ll want to read this story. Many people will have come to Platte Media’s Getfilmsnow website via several pornographic feeder websites following searches. But others will have found Getfilmsnow directly as it’s indexed by search engines, well linked from Platte International/Media corporate sites, and also linked from places like these - www.gcssdubai.com/movie-collection/ and www.tiangson.org/2008/05/27/movie-search/
For my previous post on Platte Media go here (where there’s help in finding out how Platte Media installed on your PC). Please keep those comments and e-mails coming.
Any comments on today’s story in technology Guardian should be left on this post.
2 July 2008: Listen to BBC Radio 4 You and Yours’ update and an interview with Platte International’s Ashley Bateup. (link is good until Tues next week)
Too hot to handle? My story - Red hot chillies go down the nanotube - in technology Guardian today looks at some experimental work involving chilli peppers.
How quickly can you diagnose malaria? My story - Magnetic device could be used to diagnose malaria - in today’s technology Guardian looks at the link between malaria, magnetism, and light.
Another cover story for me…in today’s technology Guardian - Fuel costs 16p per mile. Why? - looks at one driver’s decision to buy a hybrid, fuel efficiency improvements, and those rising prices. Charles Arthur, technology editor, has put some more detail in the technology blog - You think fuel prices are bad? Historically, they’re not - and we’ve graphed it. Should I be saying that all this is ‘fuel’ for thought?
Update: It certainly seems so today as Charles has now blogged this: And while we’re on fuel prices: oil hits new high of $135 per barrel
Enough said.
Update 29 May: Here are some letters about this story. There’s another letter here (fuel cont’d) about one reader’s experience of driving a Toyota Prius for a year (it replaced a Vauxhall Astra Eco diesel).
